The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1292 advisory.

    - [kernel] signals: stop info leak via tkill and tgkill syscalls (Oleg Nesterov) [970874 970875]     {CVE-2013-2141}
    - [net] ipv6: do udp_push_pending_frames AF_INET sock pending data (Jiri Benc) [987647 987648]     {CVE-2013-4162}
    - [mm] use-after-free in madvise_remove() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [849735 849736] {CVE-2012-3511}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1292)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70187

Version 1.16

Version 1.15

Version 1.16 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411012344
Version 1.15 Oct 23, 2024, 3:47 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2012-3511") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2013-2141") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2013-2141, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410231547